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DJERV will release its self-titled debut album on June 17 in Europe (except Scandinavia where it will arrive on June 10) via Indie Recordings (except in Poland and Czech Republic, where the CD will be made available through Mystic Production).

“Madman”, the new single from DJERV, is available for free download at this location.

DJERV consist of the three core members — Agnete Kjølsrud, Stian Kårstad and Erlend Gjerde. The lineup is completed by guitarist Stamos Koliousis from MENCEA and bassist Victor Brandt from ENTOMBED, who join them for their live performances.

DJERV spent most part of the fall of 2010 working on its debut album, which is set to be released in the summer of 2011. The album was engineered by Daniel Bergstrand (IN FLAMES, MESHUGGAH) in Oslo, before the band traveled to Los Angeles to team up with Grammy Award-winning producer Matt Hyde (SLAYER, HATEBREED, MONSTER MAGNET) to work on the mix. The effort was mastered by Tom Baker at Precision Mastering, and it was written and produced in its entirety by DJERV.

“Normally it takes me like 30 seconds to figure out how to mix an album, to decide what sound I’m going for, as the inspiration of the band is so obvious to spot out. But when listening to the DJERV album, I had no obvious direction on the mix as their music is truly unique. It’s absolutely awesome and it’s totally different from anything else I’ve heard in a long, long time. Working with a singer at Agnete‘s level is truly rewarding and something one very rarely get to do. Her control, range and performance is stunning — not to mention the great lyrics! She is definitely one of THE best singers I’ve had the pleasure working with, and I really hope I get to do it again.”

Drummer Erlend Gjerde comments: “We tried to explore the borderlines between rock, metal and on some tracks there are more or less obvious black metal references. The overall sound is quite stripped down, groove-oriented and melodic, yet it has those cold black metal-influenced riffs accompanying the dark moods of the music . We are very happy with the way it turned out, now it’s just the painful wait of hearing what everybody else thinks. Fingers crossed it go down well.”

DJERV‘s story is short but eventful. The first demos surfaced early 2010, and two weeks later they were booked for the most important festival in Norway, the Oya festival. They went on to tour Norway in June and played several of the bigger Norwegian festivals during the summer. In August they released the “Headstone” EP which basically is their first-ever recorded demo tracks made available as people kept demanding to get to hear them not only on MySpace. The release of the “Headstone” EP generated some good press for the band several key magazines featured them as one of the bands to keep an eye out for in 2011. In addition, DIMMU BORGIR helped promote DJERV when they invited Agnete to participate on no less than three songs for their latest album, “Abrahadabra”. Among them the lead track of the album, “Gateways”, the video for which also features Agnete.

Fan-filmed video footage of DJERV performing on April 22, 2011 at Rockefeller in Oslo, Norway during the Inferno festival can be viewed below.

Swedish folk metallers FALCONER will release their seventh studio album Armod on June 3/6 via Metal Blade Records in Europe!

The CD features 11 songs completely sung in Swedish and four bonus tracks that are English versions of the band members’ favourite new songs.

The four bonus tracks will only be available with the limited first Digipak edition of Armod!

Comments FALCONER guitarist Stefan Weinerhall: “The album is embracing the Swedish folk music to a greater extent than before making it sound slightly more down to earth. The music spans from acoustic songs with cello, flute and fiddle to songs with blast beats and really heavy riffing. As said before this is a ‘one-time-only’ album and does not define the future sound of FALCONER, but it was about time to pay full notice to the influence that has always made us different. Now we have that out of our system!”

Armod was once again recorded at King Diamond guitarist Andy La Rocque’s Sonic Train Studios in Varberg, Sweden, during December and January.

Swedish death/thrash metallers AS LIKELY AS NOT will release their debut album, “Stand Up And Nerve”, on March 28 via The Execution Kollective (TEK). The CD was mixed at Underground Studio by Pelle Saether and mastered by Göran Finnberg (IN FLAMES, DARK TRANQUILLITY, ARCH ENEMY, SOILWORK).

Finnish metallers BLOODRIDE will release their debut album, “Crowned In Hell”, on March 23 via Violent Journey Records. The 32-minute CD, which contains “simple, neck-breaking old-school thrash metal with attitude,” was recorded and mixed at D-studios by Tonmi Lillman and features a guest appearance by Tapio Wilska (SURVIVORS ZERO, ex-FINTROLL). The cover artwork was created by Jan “Örkki” Yrlund of Darkgrove Design.

“Crowned In Hell” track listing:

01. There Will Be Blood
02. March Of The Dead
03. Straight From Hell
04. Slave Of Evil
05. Cain
06. Demon’s Way
07. God
08. Promised
09. Thrown Into Darkness (Unholy War)

Swedish progressive rock band WOLVERINE will release its new studio album, “Communication Lost”, on May 23 in Europe via Candlelight Records.

The CD was recorded at various locations in Sweden between February and August 2010. It was mixed by Jacob Hansen at Hansen Studios in Ribe, Denmark in July/August 2010 and mastered by Eroc at Eroc’s Mastering Ranch in Germany in December 2010/January 2011.

“Communication Lost”, which was produced by the band, features 11 tracks and has a running time of approximately 70 minutes:

01. Downfall
02. Into The Great Nothing
03. Poison Ivy
04. Your Favourite War
05. Embrace
06. Pulse
07. What Remains
08. In Memory Of Me
09. In The Quiet Of Dawn
10. Communication Lost
11. A Beginning

Lyrically, the album deals with personal issues the band and the individual members experienced during the four years WOLVERINE spent composing the material. The result is a melodic and moody metal album which feels like a natural progression from“Still”, which was released in 2006.

The “Communication Lost” cover artwork was designed by Marcus Losbjer (drums) while Thomas Jansson(bass) contributed to it with “great photos.”

Swedish melodic metallers BLOODBOUNDwill release their fourth album, “Unholy Cross”, on March 18 via Germany’s AFM Records. The cover artwork for the CD can be seen below.

Commented the band: “The album cover made by Mark Wilkinson (IRON MAIDEN, JUDAS PRIEST) is very symbolic for the band as it symbolizes the resurrection of BLOODBOUND. It shows our monster mascot, ‘Nossen’, rising from the dead. We as a band feel we’re resurrected as well, as we now have a stable lineup and we all like working together as a band unit.

“‘Unholy Cross’ was a fun album to write and record and musically we wanted to go back and create the magic from the ‘Nosferatu’ album but with an updated 2011 production.”

“Unholy Cross” track listing:

01. Moria
02. Drop The Bomb
03. The Ones We Left Behind
04. Reflections Of Evil
05. In For The Kill
06. Together We Fight
07. The Dark Side Of Life
08. Brothers Of War
09. Message From Hell
10. In The Dead Of Night
11. Unholy Cross